This gets at something that I’ve been feeling for a while and I think you likely have as well - we’ve spent the last couple decades as a society focused on optimizing everything, and it hasn’t really made us better or happier. I think there’s a lot of people looking for a better way.
I wrote an essay for @nytimes.com Ideas about how people decide where to give away money and how the tech industry's obsession with optimization filtered into so many parts of our culture. Here's a gift link www.nytimes.com/2024/12/07/b...
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Most businesses have shockingly little resiliency because it isn't profitable.
We've been forced to take the slack out of everything in our lives.
Efficiency can be totally dehumanizing and joyless, and the reason humans are so good at ruining our environment is that we are so darn efficient at so many things. Efficiency (aka optimization) ought to be something we can turn off.
Spend too much time in the tunnel and you'll forget your destination or collapse it behind you.